Non-Traditional Christmas with Just a Scrappin

Welcome back!

This week with Just A Scrappin' we are doing

Non-Traditional Christmas Cards

no green and no red!!

Love it! I didn't do a card, I made a gift card holder. Lots of those again this year. 

The base is cut from Stampin' Up's Top Note Die. You fold your paper in half and line is up so that the folded edge is inside the cut line (so it doesn't cut) and you get a cute little folder. Just remember to make a pocket for the inside! 

I decided on a neutral color pallet for my card. The stamps are from Stampin Up, Dasher and Christmas Greetings. I stamped them in Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink and used the same ink to ink the edges of the cream cardstock. The square with Dasher on it is also glimmer misted in Crocheted Doily (though it is hard to see in the picture). I added some brown fiber and ribbon from my stash and a piece of Cappuccino twine.  Add 3 dots of gold stickles and we are done!

I hope you join us in this week's challenge!! Have a great weekend

:)

~Liz

Countdown to Christmas - 22 Days!! with MCCR

Welcome back!!

Today's theme with My Cricut Craft Room is 

Angel

I am in the process of making some gift card holders for sale at work so you will be seeing a lot of these in the next couple of days.

The Angel is from Christmas Noel cut at 2.5 inches. I did both layers white and added diamond stickles to her wings. 

I put some strips of Tim Holtz tissue tape behind the angel to ground her and I am done!

So cute and so simple. Make sure to check out My Cricut Craft Room to see what else my design team sisters have done :)

Hope this gets you in the crafty mood!

~Liz

We all have birthdays!

Yes, we do! We all have birthdays! Every year!

So birthday pages are always needed! I LOVE this stack from DCWV, Celebrations! It is all birthday themed stuff. My co-worker is really getting some great pages!

I inked everything with QQ Powder Puff Ink in Blue Hawaiian.

I added twine accents in Maraschino.

and lots and lots of stickles!!

I pulled some coordinating ribbon from my stash and used Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher to make little flags by the journal lines.

I love the paper and I really think it showed!

Remember to stop by tomorrow for the Just A Scrappin blog hop!!

~Liz

Guest Designer @ For Fun Challenges!! - Project 1

YAY!!!!

I couldn't be happier to tell all of you that I am the guest designer at For Fun Challenges for 2 weeks!! If you are not a follower of For Fun already, you really should be! They always inspire me with great challenges.

This weeks Challenge is Anything Goes! 

There is no sponsor this week so just use some of your stash and have FUN!

I knew I wanted to use my new Tim Holtz On The Edge Die: Scrollwork. And keeping with my New Year's resolution, I wanted to make a birthday card. I started pulling supplies and knew I was going to end up with a masculine card so that is how it ended up being my cousin's husband Tim's card.

I used the Stampin Up set Sense of Time for the background and the big clock and Bring on the Cake for the Happy Birthday. I distressed the edges and used Quick Quotes ink in Mocha Mama to make the distressing darker

After stamping and cutting and distressing, I used Tim Holtz tiny attacher to attach the border and the Happy Birthday rectangle. Then I used it to "hold closed" my torn spots on the clock.

I absolutely LOVE the way this turned out. 

Then I have a little funny story. I mailed this out to Tim on his birthday and on my way home I realized I never signed the inside of the card! LOL. Has this ever happened to you? My return address is on it, so he should know who it came from but I couldn't believe I just simply FORGOT! So now as soon as I stamp the inside of my card, I am signing it immediately!

So I hope this inspires you to use some of your stash and enter this great challenge. Entries are due by 1/17/12!

Come back next Wednesday the 18th to see my second project with For Fun Challenges!

~Liz

Gift Card Holders 2011

Hi all!

It is that time of year for all things Christmas :)

My Mom and I participated in our job's entrepeuner show again this year and made more gift card holders! You can see some of last year's here. 

I have a lot more pictures this year and want to give a little info on how I did some of these so I'm going to spread this into a couple of different posts.

This is one of my favorite ones this year. For the ornament on the right: I took Tim Holtz tissue tape and stuck it to a non-stick craft mat. I used alcohol inks to color it red. I pulled the tape off the mat and tore the edges to fit onto a white panel that you can see in the picture below (upper left holder). I punched out the ornament using a Stampin Up punch. I used the punch piece on the holder above and the negative below! For the negative I just put a piece of gold cardstock behind the image and used a gold Krylon pen to edge the panel and the holder. 2 items from 1 great technique I saw in a magazine :) Definitely going to be doing that again!

I loved the way all of these turned out and everyone else must have too because we sold out!!!

More Christmas holders to come next week! Hope to inspire everyone to work on their Christmas cards (if you are as behind as I am!)

~Liz

Christmas in July a little late!

I wanted to post this for Christmas in July but work and home life seem to have kept me busy!

In December every year, the crop I attend does a Christmas party. You bring a gift (it doesn't have to be crafty) and they draw names to exchange gifts. Last year I got a cookie in a jar gift. They were so yummy! For my gift, I make some cute little mangents, threw in some stickers and made this tag from Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas. You can see his tag here. I knew I was going to love this tag so I made 2. One for myself that I still have. I have no idea what to do with it, but I love it too much to give away.

 

 

I trired to follow as close to Tim's tag as I could and I just LOVE the way it came out. The large brad in the middle of the rosette and the rub on are from Quick Quotes. The stamp is Stampin Up!'s french script. The words were cut from Blackletter and covered in crystal laquer. The silvery stuff behind the rosette was actually a small $1 wire christmas tree that I cut some branches off. I loved that it was on wire so I could shape it to how I needed it. I think the rest of the stuff was all stuff in my stash (and by my stash, I mean my moms LOL Thanks again mom for letting me use your room to supply  my habit)

Hope this gave you some inspiration to start working on those Christmas projects that we will be running out of time to finish sooner than you think!

I am trying to get motivated to work more on a Christmas advent calendar I am teaching at our weekend crop in October and I think posting out this tag was just the thing! Sketching ideas to work on tonight when I get home :)

~Liz